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Re: This year's "game" is a job, not a game

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Originally Posted by MrForbes View Post
If your robot dies in a match, yeah, it's difficult. It's always been difficult.
No, it's not difficult - it's over. In the past, best of 3 allowed you to have one big screwup in a match like a robot dying and still have a fighting chance until the end of the final match in your set. In this game, depending on which robot dies, a single mistake at the very beginning will just end your regional.

The whole point of my post is that, while in the past this failure was a frustrating experience that an alliance would need to work really hard to come back from, in this year it's very often literally impossible to do so. We're no strangers to catastrophe in Quarterfinal 1 - it's just that in other years, we had some ability to come back from it and fix it. This year, done, might as well go home, except here you still have to play a completely pointless match, have fun.
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